Old City of Jerusalem
walled area within the modern city of Jerusalem
Episodes
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#5803: Who Built Jerusalem's Old City Walls?The stone ring around Jerusalem's Old City is younger than you think — and the legend about its architects is wrong.Main topic -
#5494: How Ancient Jerusalem Outgrew Its Own WallsJerusalem's Old City walls are Ottoman, not ancient — and the original city sits outside them. Tracing 4,000 years of expansion and contraction.Main topic -
#5685: East Jerusalem's Residency Trap: What 300,000 People Actually WantA third of East Jerusalem's residents hold residency, not citizenship. What the polling says about identity surprises almost everyone. -
#5683: How a Handshake Became the Temple Mount Status QuoNo treaty, no law, no signature — just Moshe Dayan's oral agreement with the Waqf, still governing the Mount 59 years later. -
#5530: Jerusalem's Pencil Line: 1948–1967Two commanders drew a ceasefire line in wax pencil in 1948. It became a city's border for nineteen years. -
#5499: Jerusalem's Russian Compound: 17 Acres, Three ChurchesA 68-dunam walled district in central Jerusalem has been a pilgrimage campus, a prison, and a city hall. Here's how it became Russian. -
#5496: Taking Down Jerusalem's 7km Border, Street by StreetBarbed wire, minefields, and a wax-pencil line: how Jerusalem's seven-kilometre border was physically torn down after 1967. -
#5495: Musrara: Growing Up on Jerusalem's Pencil-Drawn BorderHow a border drawn with wax pencils in 1948 split Musrara's homes in two — and shaped the neighborhood that raised the Israeli Black Panthers. -
#5181: Shuafat: Jerusalem's Walled-Off Refugee CampInside the Jerusalem camp that's within the city limits but beyond the barrier — taxed by the city, policed by no one. -
#5632: Why Cities Keep Digging Expensive Parking HolesParking minimums bury money underground — and shape the towers above. What Jerusalem's luxury towers reveal about rules nobody chose. -
#5228: Why Israeli Road Signs Still Spell It "TiqwaIsrael's Academy of the Hebrew Language is finally standardizing how place names get written in English — but the Q on the signs has survived every... -
#5180: Egypt's Gaza and Israel's Jerusalem: Two Legal SuspensionsEgypt ruled Gaza for 19 years without annexing it. Israel applied full law to East Jerusalem in 1967. Two occupied places, two very different legal...